With this comprehensive method, you get 25 songs in standard notation and tab, a CD with 77 examples, and detailed info from banjo master Fred Sokolow on a host of other topics, including: the selection, care and feeding of your banjo; tuning; reading tablature; chords; 3-finger rolls; backup licks; playing in any key; picking melody; special effects; different tunings; music theory; and many more.

This book/cd is a good learning tool. The instructor plays all the tracks really fast, so read/play through each exercise a few times, and you'll be good to play at his speed. The songs covered in this book are popular bluegrass jam songs, so that helps alot. This book doesn't cover alot on "clawhammer" style so I would say Banjo for Dummies would be a better buy for that.All in all, It's a decent book.